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Friday, February 16, 2018

Up to Things

Last night after guitar lessons, Eryn and I popped into Doolittle's in Eagan to catch the smurf fracking event. I thought we'd miss it, but we were right on time. She kicked up Ingress for the first time in a long time. She really likes the social aspect. There were about eight of us there, nine if you count the frog in the parking lot. Eryn and I noticed him on the way out. He was trying to look nonchalant, but we pulled up next to him in the convertible and Ingressed next to him. Eryn was giggling. I pinged the Smurfs inside so they came out to say hi and have him in for a beer. Good team. Eryn took down the towers and remodded the local park today, so she's having some fun if only temporarily.

This morning I had IGH Career Day. I think this is my third year. It's difficult to compete against cops with targets and dogs and firefolk in their uniforms. Dev Manager is just not that exciting to most kids. I tried to jazz it up by talking about salaries which are good compared to most jobs (except the pharmacist, but I pointed out the pharmacist had to spend a lot more on school), my 17 year old team mate who's doing big data as a junior in college and making a real salary, and how we process 2 trillion pieces of information, and that's if I'm really lowballing it. Cloud and AI aren't as exciting if you can't see them in action. Not a ton of questions, but some. Surprisingly, two related to security. Even eighth graders don't completely trust the cloud. I mentioned that yes, your data isn't completely under your control anymore, but cloud providers spend way more time on security and updates than we ever did internally. Practice makes closer to perfect.

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I'm a technology manager for a legal company in Minnesota. My background is a lead software developer specializing in C# and SQL Server, but dabbling in Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, and other things (and coming from a self-taught VB background). Often I worry about z/OS boxes and how to get data off of them, although recently I'm more in the small-ish app space. However, my educational background is in Tudor/Stuart history, English (literature) and English (creative writing - I did my thesis on dystopias and my Master's degree is from Hamline University - go Pipers [my siblings have three other degrees from Hamline]).